steipete/clickclack

ClickClack

Use this for ClickClack product/runtime ops, deploys, hosted app checks, and domain questions.

What

• Repo: ~/Projects/clickclack / https://github.com/openclaw/clickclack
• Product: self-hostable Slack-style chat for OpenClaw/community/agent workflows.
• Surfaces:
  • https://clickclack.chat product site
  • https://app.clickclack.chat hosted app
  • https://docs.clickclack.chat GitHub Pages docs from docs/

Prod

• Hetzner: clickclack-prod-01
• IPv4: 157.90.237.80
• IPv6: 2a01:4f8:1c1c:fb96::/64
• SSH: [email protected]
• Labels: app=clickclack, env=prod
• OS: Ubuntu 24.04, Caddy + Docker
• Source on host: /opt/clickclack-src (clean export, not a git checkout)
• Previous source: /opt/clickclack-src.prev plus timestamped older prev dirs
• Data: /var/lib/clickclack bind-mounted to /app/data
• Container: clickclack, port 127.0.0.1:8080->8080
• Caddy: /etc/caddy/Caddyfile proxies clickclack.chat, app.clickclack.chat to 127.0.0.1:8080; www redirects to apex.
• DNS truth: ~/Projects/manager/DOMAINS.md and ~/Projects/manager/DNS.md

Deploy

Golden path:

1. Local refresh:
   • cd ~/Projects/clickclack
   • git status --short --branch
   • git fetch origin
   • If on main with no upstream: git merge --ff-only origin/main
2. Decide deployed delta:
   • Last known deploy may be the old local HEAD before pull; verify /opt/clickclack-src/.deploy-commit if present.
   • git log --oneline <old>..HEAD
   • git diff --stat <old>..HEAD
3. Archive clean HEAD only:
   • Do not rsync untracked local files.
   • short=$(git rev-parse --short=12 HEAD)
   • git archive --format=tar HEAD | ssh [email protected] "rm -rf /opt/clickclack-src.next && mkdir -p /opt/clickclack-src.next && tar -C /opt/clickclack-src.next -xf - && printf '%s\n' '$short' > /opt/clickclack-src.next/.deploy-commit"
4. Preserve env without printing secrets:
   • docker inspect clickclack --format '{{range .Config.Env}}{{println .}}{{end}}' > /root/clickclack.env.current
5. Backup before migrations:
   • mkdir -p /var/lib/clickclack/backups
   • chown 1000:1000 /var/lib/clickclack/backups
   • docker exec clickclack clickclack backup --data /app/data --out /app/data/backups/clickclack-before-$(date -u +%Y%m%dT%H%M%SZ).db
6. Build:
   • docker build --label org.opencontainers.image.revision="$short" -t clickclack:"$short" -t clickclack:latest /opt/clickclack-src.next
7. Replace container:
   • docker stop clickclack && docker rm clickclack
   • docker run -d --name clickclack --restart unless-stopped --env-file /root/clickclack.env.current -p 127.0.0.1:8080:8080 -v /var/lib/clickclack:/app/data clickclack:latest serve --addr :8080 --data /app/data
8. Rotate source dirs:
   • Move old /opt/clickclack-src.prev to timestamped backup.
   • Move /opt/clickclack-src to /opt/clickclack-src.prev.
   • Move /opt/clickclack-src.next to /opt/clickclack-src.

Verify

• Host:
  • docker ps --filter name=clickclack
  • docker inspect clickclack --format '{{index .Config.Labels "org.opencontainers.image.revision"}}'
  • cat /opt/clickclack-src/.deploy-commit
  • curl -fsS http://127.0.0.1:8080/ >/tmp/clickclack-root.html
  • curl -fsS http://127.0.0.1:8080/app >/tmp/clickclack-app.html
• Public:
  • curl -I https://clickclack.chat
  • curl -I https://app.clickclack.chat
  • curl -I https://docs.clickclack.chat

Guardrails

• Do not print OAuth secrets or magic tokens.
• Use a throwaway UserKnownHostsFile if local SSH host-key state is stale; confirm server identity with hcloud server describe clickclack-prod-01 first.
• clickclack serve runs migrations on boot; always back up SQLite before replacing the container.
• Keep deploys from clean git archives, not dirty working trees.